It's always fun to pick a winner. It's more fun when the pick is right.
Every year, I try to pick the winner of the Toshiba Classic. I've been doing it for the past six years. Only once did I get it right: Fred Couples in 2010.
This year, I've decided...

It was the type of a tournament that could change a career, define a player.
The 2008 U.S. Open stabilized Tiger Woods as an icon. The Open made Rocco Mediate everyone's favorite underdog.
Mediate is well aware the tournament was a unique experience....

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The Summer Olympics in London helped transfix the eyes of the sports world on representatives of Newport-Mesa.
No spotlight was as brilliant as that created when Misty May-Treanor and her partner met fellow Newport Harbor High alumnus April Ross and her partner in the women's beach volleyball final.
Spotlights of varying scope also brought into focus the accomplishments of a few championship teams and individuals to form the top 10 Newport-Mesa sports stories for 2012, as selected by the Daily Pilot...

Hot-tea concessions and an on-site betting parlor. Waterproof fans and riveting competition. A bagpipe’s hymn and a bishop’s prayer.
Ten years ago this month, courtesy of my gracious editors, I chronicled one of sport’s grandest events: the Ryder Cup.
No matter you knowledge of, or affinity for, golf, this is three days of must-see TV. The burdens of playing for team and homeland, rare in this ancient game, can turn major champions into weekend hackers and obscure names into national...